“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
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“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
“Sometimes it is to regain by the sword what had been unjustly taken from the rightful possessor: Sometimes to prevent impending dangers, which cannot be avoided by other means: But, for the most part, it is undertaken to gratify the ambition of a prince, who wishes to subject to his arbitrary will a people whom God created free, and to gain an uncontrolled dominion over their rights and property.”
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Russell Means
“’Indian policy’ has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.”
“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”
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Neil Young, from the song, “Ohio”
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
“Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?”